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Promoted ContentMarch 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Social Research
by Prokopis A Christou
The field of social research is characterized by its broad scope and interdisciplinary nature, encompassing the examination of human behaviour, societies, and various facets of social existence; however, it is influenced by numerous factors, including technological advancements. It is therefore no surprise that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become a driving force, bringing about substantial transformations within the field. The use of AI-assisted tools and programmes for the collection, analysis, and interpretation of both quantitative and qualitative data is increasing at a remarkable pace. The implications of utilizing these applications are significant and noteworthy. While these technologies present numerous opportunities, it is important to acknowledge the accompanying dilemmas and risks associated with this form of technological advancement. With a focus on AI's research implications, this book explores various considerations and examples across different disciplines of social research. It highlights the considerable promise AI holds for revolutionizing the discipline while also guiding readers in contemplating the potential drawbacks and various concerns. By doing so, researchers can optimize the capabilities of AI and promote its responsible, reliable, and beneficial application in enhancing and advancing social research.
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Trusted PartnerNovember 2021
British Notes
by Ai Bo
The author has lived and worked in the UK for more than 20 years since he studied in the UK in the early 1990s. This book is an observation essay on his life in the UK over the years. The author has a wealth of experience in the UK, has done management, served the community, has been a volunteer, and has several emotional experiences with foreign girls. Through the author’s narration and contact with the author’s own personal experience, the life picture of British society is clearly laid out. The British culture, various characters, customs and customs are truly presented, providing a body for readers who have never experienced life abroad. Feeling on the spot. The author's essays are calm, objective, truthful and witty, easy to read, and have something to read.
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Ai Wan’s Daffodil Ball
by Huang Beijia
After several years of conception and more than one year of writing, Huang Beijia, a famous children’s literature writer, has recently published her new dedication named 'Ai Wan’s Daffodil Ball' in Jiangsu Children Press. The story is set in China in the early 1980s. At that time, the country was like a sleeping giant who was about to wake up. It was easy for people to get lost in that restless, unstable society. This is the setting for the story of the eight-year-old Aiwan. She grew up quietly with her brothers and sisters in an ordinary family in the small town of Qingyang. The story of Aiwan's upbringing is the same as that of many other girls during that period. Her ordinary life style was peaceful and low-key, just like the daffodil in the conch pot, which would be satisfied even with just a little water, all the while sending out a gentle fragrance. Her philosophy of life was learnt from her own life experience in this family, instead of being taught by others. Hard and restrained as her childhood was, we could still imagine that once she grew up, she would discover the wings to fly out into this wide world, and her wealth of experiences would become her fortune, helping her to create a bright, amazing future.
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Trusted PartnerMay 2024
Postartifizielle Literatur
Lesen im Zeitalter künstlicher Intelligenz
by Hannes Bajohr
Mit Programmen wie ChatGPT hat künstliche Intelligenz ein solches Niveau erreicht, dass es kaum noch möglich ist, zu erkennen, ob ein Text von einem Computer stammt oder von einem Menschen. Können Sie zum Beispiel mit Bestimmtheit ausschließen, dass diese Zeilen von einem Algorithmus verfasst wurden? Für die Rezeption von Geschriebenem bedeutet das eine Zeitenwende. Wenn wir stets unterstellen müssen, dass hinter einem Text KI steckt, ergibt die Unterscheidung natürlich/artifiziell keinen Sinn mehr – eine postartifizielle Ära bricht an. Hannes Bajohr erörtert, wie sich diese Verschiebung auf Zeitungsartikel oder wissenschaftliche Publikationen auswirkt und wie sie das literarische Lesen und Schreiben verändert.
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Empty Lunch Box
by Author: Ai Wen’er, Xing HuoIllustrator: Xing Huo
Key Points: Touches in little wishes teach children to be kind and make the connections. Brief content Coronavirus disease breaks out at a dizzying speed. A stray dog that used to rely on people’s feed now loses its food supply. Fortunately, a girl and her grandma, who often fed the dog, adopt it. The parents of the girl are both front-line medical workers who devote themselves to battling with the epidemic. During the time when the girl’s parents are far away, the dog is a comfort to her, accompanying her to wait for her parent’s victory and homecoming. Reading Guidance This picture book illustrates the life in a community facing epidemic. The empty lunch box becomes a symbol of the empty street in the time of an epidemic. Therefore, filling up the empty lunch box symbolizes the emotions between humans and animals and the love among people. Flowers in the empty lunch box embodies the seed of hope sprouting in love. Animals are human beings’ friends. This book on the one hand focuses on the epidemic situation and the community’s work. On the other hand, it guides children to care about life and pass on love to others. Copyright Sold to America, France, German, Lebanon, Turkey, Belgium, Tunisia, Vietnam, Nepal, India,Thailand, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Russia, Hungary, the UK ( 19countries) For More Information of Big-eyes Heartwarming Series International Achievement, please refer to https://pan.baidu.com/s/1B6YNlazYSgWJmplmelgM6Q (fetch code:9a53) Video of First Launch of Big-eyes Heartwarming Series in Gemany Version, please refer to https://pan.baidu.com/s/1ym9c95T7LyoRPwuI3rXRiQ (fetch code: I9m7) Video of Germany Young readers reading Big eyes Heartwarming Series, please refer to https://pan.baidu.com/s/1X8n_c82FCWNnDqGuOWppHg (fetch code: 9ptu) Promotion of Big eyes Heartwarming Series in Russian Version on Frankfurt Bookfair, please refer to https://pan.baidu.com/s/1DMP0dMA9mMjZZ2Smc9dBig (fetch code: 0la4)
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Imaginäre Größe
Vom großen Vordenker und Kritiker der Künstlichen Intelligenz
by Stanisław Lem, Jens Reuter, Caesar Rymarowicz
Stanislaw Lem hat in seinem Schaffen eine deutliche Entwicklung vollzogen: von abenteuerlichen Science Fiction-Romanen und -Erzählungen schritt er fort zu immer komplexeren sprachlichen und gedanklichen Strukturen. Er hat so eine eigene Mischform von erzählender Prosa und diskursivem Essay gefunden, eine Art Metaliteratur. Während Lem in »Die vollkommene Leere« Rezensionen nicht existierender Bücher verfaßt hat, so sucht er in »Imaginäre Größe« die Kunst des Vorwortschreibens aus der Sklaverei der Werke, an die sie gefesselt sind, zu erlösen: »Niemand unternimmt es, die Vorwortschreiberei aus dem Zwinger der Unfreiheit, aus der Tretmühle des Frondienstes herauszuführen. Also gibt es keinen anderen Rat: Ich muß selbst, obschon eher aus Pflichtgefühl denn aus einer Regung des Herzens, der Introduktionistik zu Hilfe eilen - um ihr Befreier und Geburtshelfer zu werden«. Das erklärt Lem im Vorwort seiner Sammlung imaginärer Vorworte. Das erste Vorwort gilt einem pornographischen Bildband einer ganz neuen Art, bei dem es der Leser sicher bedauert, daß er in diesem Fall mit der Einführung vorliebnehmen muß. Weitere Vorworte erläutern, wie den Bakterien die Sprache beigebracht wurde – die Eruntik ist die Lehre von den sprechenden Bakterien –, oder führen ein in die »Geschichte der bitischen Literatur«, der computergenerierten Literatur, so benannt nach den »bits«, den Einheiten der Information. Abschluß und Höhepunkt des Bandes ist eine einleitende Rede des Supercomputers GOLEM XIV, der der Menschheit in bombastischer Rhetorik einen Spiegel vorhält und ihr auseinandersetzt, wie mißlungen der Mensch als Produkt der Evolution ist, wie gering seine geistigen Qualitäten, gesehen aus der Position eines wahrhaft intelligenten Wesens.
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Trusted PartnerApril 2023
Lazy!
On the benefits of doing nothing
by Bernd Imgrund
— Against the mantra of always having to be doing something — A compact cultural history of laziness — Anecdotes and aphorisms In a world that is characterised by the idea of achievement, laziness is considered a mortal sin. This has a long tradition. "If anyone will not work, let him not eat," wrote Paul the Apostle. So laziness, we are led to believe, is considered punishable by death in the Bible. But there is more to laziness than the mortal sin of inertia. It also includes idleness and contemplation, which no one finds reprehensible. Laziness can even be sexy. Its most charming variant is nonchalance: nothing upsets me; I take things as they come. A very readable essay about the need for idleness in our stressful times.
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Trusted PartnerLiterature & Literary StudiesMarch 2017
Imperialism and juvenile literature
by Jeffrey Richards
Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this truer than in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. It both reflects popular attitudes, ideas and preconceptions and it generates support for selected views and opinions. This book examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times: in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. It seeks to examine in detail the articulation and diffusion of imperialism in the field of juvenile literature by stressing its pervasiveness across boundaries of class, nation and gender. It analyses the production, distribution and marketing of imperially-charged juvenile fiction, stressing the significance of the Victorians' discovery of adolescence, technological advance and educational reforms as the context of the great expansion of such literature. An overview of the phenomenon of Robinson Crusoe follows, tracing the process of its transformation into a classic text of imperialism and imperial masculinity for boys. The imperial commitment took to the air in the form of the heroic airmen of inter-war fiction. The book highlights that athleticism, imperialism and militarism become enmeshed at the public schools. It also explores the promotion of imperialism and imperialist role models in fiction for girls, particularly Girl Guide stories.
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Trusted PartnerAnthologies (non-poetry)2021
Not Only Kobzar. The Anthology of Ukrainian literature. 1792–1883 (in two books)
by Mykhailo Nazarenko
Ukrainian literature of the 19th century was far more exciting and diverse than one might imagine. Mykhailo Nazarenko's anthology contains one hundred and fifty texts that are not known or very little known to the modern reader (some of them are reprinted for the first time after 150 years of oblivion). These texts help to understand Ukrainian literary movement in a wider context. The compilation starts with the "The Song of the Black Sea Army" by Anton Golovaty. This novel precedes the famous "Aeneid" and marks the beginning of the printed literature "in the contemporary Ukrainian language". "It is not time..." by Ivan Franko is the last one in the compilation and describes further evolution of the independent Ukrainian literary word. The compilation also contains fifty essays about each of the authors: why did they write in a particular that way and about what? Why did some turn out to be forgotten, while others are remembered for their works?
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Trusted PartnerJuly 2011
Macht euch keine Illusionen über mich
Der verbotene Blog
by Weiwei, Ai / Herausgeber Ambrozy, Lee
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Trusted PartnerDecember 2019
Roboterethik
Eine Einführung
by Janina Loh
Maschinen und Moral Die Philosophin Janina Loh befasst sich in ihrem grundlegenden Buch mit den moralischen Herausforderungen, die beim Bau von Robotern und im Umgang mit ihnen eine Rolle spielen: Sind Roboter autonom? Können sie gar moralisch handeln? Haben sie einen moralischen Wert? Sollten ihnen Rechte zuerkannt werden? Wer ist zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen, wenn ein Roboter einen Menschen schädigt? Kritisch diskutiert Loh diese und weitere ethische Fragen und stellt die wichtigsten Lösungsansätze vor.
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Trusted PartnerMay 2002
Die Technologiefalle
Essays | Vom großen Vordenker und Kritiker der Künstlichen Intelligenz
by Stanisław Lem, Albrecht Lempp, Friedrich Griese, Jerzy Jarzebski
In Die Technologiefalle unterzieht der polnische Zukunftsforscher und Science-Fiction-Autor Stanisław Lem die technische Entwicklung, die Biotechnologie und Gentechnik, die Informationstechnologie und die sogenannte Künstliche Intelligenz einer strengen Prüfung. Das, was er in seinem umfangreichen Werk in phantastischer Formulierung vorweggenommen hat, erweist sich als verblüffend aktuell, vieles hat sich bewahrheitet.Sein Fortschrittsoptimismus von damals ist jedoch gedämpft: Lem betont die ethische Dimension unseres kollektiven Handelns. Als Paradigma, an das alles Menschengemachte nicht heranreicht, erscheint die natürliche Evolution. In manchen aktuellen Ausformungen der technischen Entwicklung sieht Lem einen Moralverlust. Auch seine eigenen Projektionen stellt er unter das Postulat der Menschlichkeit, und er läßt sich im Zeitalter postmoderner Beliebigkeit seinen moralischen Ernst nicht abkaufen.Stanisław Lem, 1926 in Lwów geboren, starb am 27. März 2006 in Kraków.